About 1. FC Heidenheim

1. FC Heidenheim 1846 is a German professional football club from Heidenheim an der Brenz in Baden-Württemberg. It traces its roots to a gymnastics club founded in 1846, which makes it the oldest professional football club in Germany. The present football club was formed in 1972 and plays at the Voith-Arena, which holds about 15,000 spectators.

Under long-serving coach Frank Schmidt, Heidenheim climbed from the regional leagues to the 2. Bundesliga in 2014. In 2023 it won promotion to the Bundesliga for the first time, and it finished eighth in its first top-flight season.

That eighth place took Heidenheim into the 2024–25 UEFA Conference League, its European debut. It beat BK Häcken in the play-off round and reached the knockout phase play-offs from the league phase, where Copenhagen knocked it out after extra time.